I want to make an AppImage for the PCSX2 Emulator. It often has troubles with other dependencies, so an AppImage would be great.
But i ran into a Problem. The PCSX2-AppImage does run but the Plugins in the folder “/usr/lib/games/PCSX2” are not available when first configuring PCSX2. I also tried to load the Plugins from another Directory, but they do not appear. I guess i’m missing a dependency.
What am i doing wrong?

AppImages are great by the way, but too less Developers know about it. Imagine all Linux compatible Apps would have an AppImage instead of manuals how to compile their Programm. That would be Awesome.
I also tested AppImage on a Raspberry Pi with Raspbian OS and it did work!

Your binary, myapp, must not contain any hardcoded paths that would prevent it from being relocateable. You can check this by running strings MyApp.AppDir/usr/bin/myapp | grep /usr. Should this return something, then you need to modify your app programmatically (e.g., by using relative path or by using binreloc). If you prefer not to change the source code of your app and/or would not like to recompile your app, you can also patch the binary, for example using the command sed -i -e 's|/usr|././|g' MyApp.AppDir/usr/bin/myapp.

I already tried the command sed -i -e ‘s|/usr|././|g’ MyApp.AppDir/usr/bin/myapp for PCSX2 AppImage.
Then PCSX2 wants to load the Plugins from here: “home/sk0re/Documents/usr/lib/games/PCSX2” instead from “/usr/lib/games/PCSX2”.
The Plugins don’t appear in the settings dialog but they are included in the AppImage.

Hi…i am a new user here. As per my knowledge AppImages are great by the way, but too less Developers know about it. Imagine all Linux compatible Apps would have an AppImage instead of manuals how to compile their Programm.I used AppImage on a Raspberry Pi with Raspbian OS.

Hi EbaYau, welcome to AppImage and thanks for your kind words. There is only one way to increase developers’ awareness of AppImage: Tell the authors of your favorite applications about AppImage, that you would like to see your favorite applications in AppImage format, and why.

We will be happy to support the authors of your favorite applications in making AppImages.